Eminent Domain Is Not The Way To Go

September 1, 2005|Dorriet J.C. Turton Tamarac

I have been reading in your newspaper about eminent domain.

I am a property owner and it can happen to me.

When the prime minister got in power in Jamaica, the late Michael Manley, I remember all the Pepsi executives started to leave the company. The reason they told us we should leave was because Manley was getting too buddy-buddy with Fidel Castro and that Jamaica was going to become a communist country. I believed it, but later realized it was not the truth. It was a lie.

We were all afraid that with communism it can happen right here.

I am also thinking about all those wonderful Jewish people whose possessions were taken away by the Nazis before they were thrown into the concentration camps and gas chambers. Especially the lovely and adorable Anne Frank.

Eminent domain has to go. We as Americans are warning these commissioners and people in power that we put them there and we are going to throw them all out.

We want to keep it America the beautiful; we are not going to let them turn it into America the ugly.